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While some of us will appreciate this post, I for one will download and try it... You have made plenty of regular posts so we know your not a spammer. However, could you please try to refrain from making these types of posts, its borderline spam!
My bad!!! It was not intended to be a spam or promo email .. it was just for informational purposes ... informing folks of this release ..
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My bad!!! It was not intended to be a spam or promo email .. it was just for informational purposes ... informing folks of this release ..
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How come the demo download is not available after I have gone through all the forms and even gotten the code??????
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How come the demo download is not available after I have gone through all the forms and even gotten the code??????
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Be warned folks!!
And anyway what's the difference between "promotional" and "information" especially when it's all wrapped up in special offers - 50% off etc.
I'm not clear though whether gravejoker is just copying info from some site or whether he has some connection with the company - perhaps he could tell us, so I can offer a chocolate or weild the axe.
Mike
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Be warned folks!!
And anyway what's the difference between "promotional" and "information" especially when it's all wrapped up in special offers - 50% off etc.
I'm not clear though whether gravejoker is just copying info from some site or whether he has some connection with the company - perhaps he could tell us, so I can offer a chocolate or weild the axe.
Mike
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No one likes killing spammers more than me and i would have "weilded the axe" if the OP didnt have already over 200 posts and i checked those posts and they werent spam so i let it slide and issued a warning.. I think we are good Mike, he has gotten the hint, so play nice
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No one likes killing spammers more than me and i would have "weilded the axe" if the OP didnt have already over 200 posts and i checked those posts and they werent spam so i let it slide and issued a warning.. I think we are good Mike, he has gotten the hint, so play nice
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I totally agree, don't get me wrong I have seen some of gravejokers posts and a welcome contributor he is. Just me being a bit naughty but I suppose it highlights the issue of how people inform the community about new apps.
I guess we all like to know about new things but posters should avoid anything that sounds excessively salesman like. Now I will shut up!!
Mike
hi
my htc hero cannot detect wifi signal which are from my laptop
it can detect wifi signal from our college library (here we can connect through laptop and access internet) but cannot access through internet.
I spoke to customer service, they said I have to download some certificate and copy it on my sd-card.
plz help me...
AFAIK the Hero does not support peer to peer connection over the wifi. You have to go through a router.
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AFAIK the Hero does not support peer to peer connection over the wifi. You have to go through a router.
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iam a noob
tell me wat i have to do
i spoke to htc guys they said i have dowload some security certificates.
wat r they?
from where can i get them?
I think they are probably giving you incorrect advice. Would not be the first time.
I do not have a clue what they are talking about and can think of no certificates that you need to download that would make any difference to your problem. What you are trying to achieve is a peer to peer connection and as I said in myprevious post I do not think that is possible.
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. What you are trying to achieve is a peer to peer connection and as I said in myprevious post I do not think that is possible.
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I don't believe he is trying to achieve a peer to peer connection. He's trying to connect to his colleges WiFi with his phone. The stuff about the laptop is a red herring as he is just saying that he can connect to the WiFi via his laptop.
Chances are his college WiFi uses WPA2 Enterprise, which would require a security certificate. I've never tried to do this myself, though I'm aware of an app, Wifihelper, which purports to help.
Regards,
Dave
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I don't believe he is trying to achieve a peer to peer connection. He's trying to connect to his colleges WiFi with his phone. The stuff about the laptop is a red herring as he is just saying that he can connect to the WiFi via his laptop.
Chances are his college WiFi uses WPA2 Enterprise, which would require a security certificate. I've never tried to do this myself, though I'm aware of an app, Wifihelper, which purports to help.
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Dave
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dude u got me..
can i get that wifi helper in android market and is it paid application?
or if have that app with u can upload it and send that link plzz...
I couldn't find it on the Market, but on the link I posted, if you go to the Wiki and then the "Install" page there is a download link.
Regards,
Dave
What college have you managed to convince to accept you? Your use of the English language is awfully lazy.
Try, at least, to construct meaningful sentences that contain complete words. It is so frustrating to read that it deters me from even offering you technical advice.
It will probably be best for you to test it on the laptop first to make sure its not the phone.
you need to change the wireless card to AP mode
for Windows 7 follow this http://tameyourpc.blogspot.com/2009/07/windows-7-as-wireless-access-point.html
For Vista http://lifehacker.com/software/how-to/turn-your-laptop-into-a-wireless-hot-spot-280002.php
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What college have you managed to convince to accept you? Your use of the English language is awfully lazy.
Try, at least, to construct meaningful sentences that contain complete words. It is so frustrating to read that it deters me from even offering you technical advice.
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Perhaps in a college where english is not the main language...how many languages do you speak?
Arrongance and stupidity walk side by side...
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Perhaps in a college where english is not the main language...how many languages do you speak?
Arrongance and stupidity walk side by side...
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Glad to see someone sticking up for users :-D
Seems someone is always waiting to belittle someone just because they speak a different language!!
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Perhaps in a college where english is not the main language...how many languages do you speak?
Arrongance and stupidity walk side by side...
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I would hate to be 'arrongant' - surely such a typo is a nested irony, however, in your case due to the flag your ID displays, your fallibility is understandable.
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Glad to see someone sticking up for users :-D
Seems someone is always waiting to belittle someone just because they speak a different language!!
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You are assuming the original poster does not speak English. I do not agree with your assumption. To me it appears the OP is simply a lazy text typer. The very fact the poster is able to take English text and condense/concatenate it suggests a mediocre level of understanding.
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You are assuming the original poster does not speak English. I do not agree with your assumption. To me it appears the OP is simply a lazy text typer. The very fact the poster is able to take English text and condense/concatenate it suggests a mediocre level of understanding.
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WOW what with nested ironies, condensation and concatenation, you are obviously much too clever for the rest of us mere mortals. We can but worship at your feet and sincerely thank you for choosing to occasionally come amongst us and show us what we are doing wrong.
But then again for most English speaking people the OP's posts, poorly crafted as they may be, are more easily understood then yours. "Correctly" written sentences with multi-syllabic words do not necessarily make for good communication. They can, however, reveal the true character of the communicator.
If this forum is happy to advocate the use of text talk then so be it. Such encouragement does nothing positive for the quality of the environment. Suggesting that the OP is unable to type due to inability is assumptive and unsubstantiated.
I ask not for worship but I do request that posters try their best to type in a way that displays a modicum of effort on their behalf. It is not 'my' forum so my request is that of a contributor, however, I do run my own phpbb forum for an angling society and do understand that such type, if encouraged lowers the cumulative value of the discussion, something I sought to point out here, which clearly not all (you are an example) favour.
QED comes immediately to mind
AFAIK (oops an acronym) this forum if for communicating, discussing and resolving problems with a particular type of mobile phone. I am not so arrogant (made sure I got the spelling right) as to favour or disfavour, or encourage or discourage the style or form that the posters of those communications, discussions or resolutions choose to use. And (there I go again starting the sentence with an and) I do not believe that choice of style in any way "lowers" their value, singularly or cumulatively.
I have learnt much from many of the posts on this, and other, forums, and the style or form that those posts took had no relevance to that education.
One of the many glories of the English language is that it continually evolves to suite its users. Whether you like it or not every generation changes our language. Mine did, my father's did and so on. If you do not like that then a short hop across the channel to join French academia is advisable, taking, of course, a large tub of aspic with you. Otherwise you are likely to end up permanently bitter and twisted.
Just one final question - can you help in any way the OP's problem? I couldn't, but at least I tried.
I could have helped the poster but I refer you to my initial comment in this thread
I suppose some of us are comfortable with the current bastardisation of what is generally a wonderful language. 'Plz' and 'thnx' and 'wivs' do not bring anything to the evolution of the matter in question. I, conversely, seek to preserve the art form but in all honesty, that is probably a reflection of my education and background. This thread is so far off the mark now, I feel a little embarrassed responding - however, in fairness I accept that the current direction is largely my doing
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I could have helped the poster but I refer you to my initial comment in this thread
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a reflection of my education and background.
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An education and background that has apparantly left you, from the evidence you have presented us with, unhelful (your first sentence), arrogant ("I ask not for worship ..."), and xenophobic (your slur on the Portuguese nation in a previous post). Let us hope that evidence is misleading.
The one thing we can probably agree on though is that this part of the thread has run its course.
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I could have helped the poster but I refer you to my initial comment in this thread
I suppose some of us are comfortable with the current bastardisation of what is generally a wonderful language. 'Plz' and 'thnx' and 'wivs' do not bring anything to the evolution of the matter in question. I, conversely, seek to preserve the art form but in all honesty, that is probably a reflection of my education and background. This thread is so far off the mark now, I feel a little embarrassed responding - however, in fairness I accept that the current direction is largely my doing
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Some people are not so far up their own arse that they can see past grammar and short hand "bastardisation" as you put it that they will help people no matter what, and as you said it is not your forum so if you do not like the users language have some respect and keep you pathetic fingers away from the keyboard instead if being disrespectful.
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Some people are not so far up their own arse that they can see past grammar and short hand "bastardisation" as you put it that they will help people no matter what, and as you said it is not your forum so if you do not like the users language have some respect and keep you pathetic fingers away from the keyboard instead if being disrespectful.
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Ouch, that was a learned piece of prose
I have come to a point where I can no longer sit back and watch our system be bombarded with spam apps. It hurts android as a system and will be its downfall, open or not.
I sent tips to Gizmodo, Engadget, BGR, and all others that have can reach a large audience.
I for one am sick and tired of all the bull**** I see in the market. Open system or not, its getting out of hand. I can't be the only one fed up with the situation. To all android users please voice your hatred of people abusing the rules. Just because its not illegal does not make it ethical or allowable
These are a few links to help people realize how bad this problem is and how bad it will become.
Who cares if we have 50,000 apps and upwards of 15,000 are complete crap. There are 20 real offenders with about 1,000 apps each. 1,000!! each. Thats ridiculous.
Almost 50% of our applications do nothing. Absolutely nothing. I love my N! and have been an Android user since the G1. I have watched our open system is being abused and ransacked by idiots.
Anyone else fed up with this do something to fix it rather than sit back.
I know this is not so much about the N1 than it is Android in general, but I wanted people to see it and spread the word.
These are some websites to look at
http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/bwemj/pocket_empires_spamming_android_market/
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Android+Market/thread?tid=511e1703b32ce3a5&hl=en
http://www.eurodroid.com/2010/02/an...he-day-zeitmann-and-its-deluxe-clock-widgets/
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Android+Market/thread?tid=608e9ca3fc7a80fb&hl=en
http://forum.xda-developers.com/archive/index.php/t-635400.html
I'd noticed a lot of reviews mentioning Pocket Empire, all across the Market, earlier today, it's a pain in the arse, and highlights the fact that you really can't read just a few comments left, and assume they'll be accurate.
Yes it is totally our of hand. The Pocket Empire developers have been encouraging their users to go to the market and download any and all Free apps they dont have to pay for. Then to leave feedback score of 5 for the unrelated app with a comment promoting their Pocket Empires and a referral code. So as well as the comments being BS so are the star ratings they are leaving, which do not reflect the underlying application.
Here are some threads discussing it.
Nexusone Stop spamming the Android Market Pocket Empire players
People advertise everywhere for "pocket empires"- can this spam be curtailed somehow?
How about all the people who were getting their knickers in a knot about the sentence "this message was not sent by tapatalk" sink their teeth into this one.
It is of far greater significance and has the potential to undermine the android market. The lack of action by google to date on this issue (ie not banning PE) suggests to me that they want the market to self regulate.
So lets get together and do something about this Pocket Empire mob.
Yeah the stupid spam comments about "join pocket empires and receive 100 credits" is really getting annoying, not to mention the complete random and totally useless apps that have been coming onto the market lately.
You can at least use appbrain as an alternative, because it filters out the vast majority of Spam apps. But it cannot filter all the PE Spam comments.
Well yesterday, the dev of Pocket Empires sent an ingame message out saying the following:
Hey everyone. We are laying down a new "dont spam other games" policy due to the amount of spame that's been being spread around. Starting May 1st any comments past that date will have their referral code banned for a week. Thanks for your assumed cooperation and enjoy!
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Seems like the dev is trying to put a stop to it at least for now.
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Well yesterday, the dev of Pocket Empires sent an ingame message.....
Seems like the dev is trying to put a stop to it at least for now.
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Yes but they are just going through the motions of saying the right thing. Crying Crocodile Tears. How do you honestly think they are going to police their threat of one week bans?
If they were serious about it, they would
1) be telling their users to go back and undo the damage they have done. Which would involve removing spam comments left for other apps AND setting ratings stars to average.
2) removing the referral code system altogether, so that once they no longer can Spam the market they do not just move to every other forum know to man. Such as some smart arse adding a PE referral in this very thread which will no doubt happen soon enough.
I would really like to see Google pull PE from the market altogether for some time as a penalty. But probably wont happen as they want the market to self regulate.
POCKET EMPIRES = POX it must be eradicated
Quick add me on pocket empire!
My code is [email protected]
I'll pay that one ;-)
KnightMAREcrow said:
These are some websites to look at
http://forum.xda-developers.com/archive/index.php/t-635400.html
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Yeah, I opened that thread over there. What bothers me the most is how easy it would it be for google to give us the tools to crush spam.
From where I see it, there are two distinct problems right now:
1) the spam apps (those by Michael Quach, Zeittman, etc).
The easy solution: allow the users to filter out specific words and developers. Then, if a given number of users filter out a developer, consider him "uninteresting" and relegate his apps to the bottom.
2) the PE spam in other apps and games.
The easy solution: if a given number of users report a given number of posts as spam (e.g. 50 individual users report 50 individual messages) consider them spam and filter out every message that is 90% similar to them (e.g. they have mostly the same words but the referral code changes).
These would be completely automatic and would require absolutely no human interaction on part of Google. It's so easy it makes me want to go to their offices and slap the person in charge in the neck.
I reckon a simpler solution to the PE SPAM with referral codes is as follows:
Restrict feedback entries to known words. So if a user enters anything that is not a word, such as a referral code, serial number or email, then it would get rejected. There is absolutely no reason for legitimate feedback to contain any word or string of characters that is not in a dictionary.
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There is absolutely no reason for legitimate feedback to contain any word or string of characters that is not in a dictionary.
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What about diminutives, etc? Also, What if I want to point to a related app that is better in my opinion? I have done that in the past.
Fair point.
However, for simplicity, blocking non words would go a long way to fixing the referral code issue, while allowing most feedback. It may be better to point out the shortcomings of an application, than to refer readers to an alternative. I know if I was a developer, I would be annoyed if feedback pointed to a competitors product. I trust I got my point across here, using only common words and no diminutives. Common diminutives could be added to the dictionary in any case.
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However, for simplicity, blocking non words would go a long way to fixing the referral code issue, while allowing most feedback.
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The operative word here being "most". I get your point, but I think self-regulation would be better on the long run. I don't think the best way to fix an annoying situation is to introduce another annoying situation, even if it's less annoying than the first one; and I sure would be pissed if I was writing a comment and the Market rejected it because one of the words I used was not in the dictionary.
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It may be better to point out the shortcomings of an application, than to refer readers to an alternative. I know if I was a developer, I would be annoyed if feedback pointed to a competitors product
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I would be too, but honestly: I don't write comments to please developers, I do it to give other users good advice. Isn't that precisely the point of the comments system?
http://www.appbrain.com/
If you refuse to use it after I've showed you this, or knew about it already and didn't use it, then don't start another thread like this. You have your out.
And please don't use the "we shouldn't have to use a 3rd party app." This is mother####### XDA, we use what we have to in order to get things done quickly and smoothly.
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And please don't use the "we shouldn't have to use a 3rd party app." This is mother####### XDA, we use what we have to in order to get things done quickly and smoothly.
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Yeah, let's leave the rest of Android users on their own. We're mother####### XDA, we don't care about things working right or not if we can make them work for US!
Who cares about the health of the Market? Who cares if it deters people from using Android? We're mother####### XDA!
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http://www.appbrain.com/
If you refuse to use it after I've showed you this, or knew about it already and didn't use it, then don't start another thread like this. You have your out.
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Of course we know about appbrain. Before you go sprouting off, Just read some the feedback comments in http://www.appbrain.com/browse/apps/?apps=free for example Shazam and you will immediately see they are not filtered and that the SPAM comments we have been discussing reside there as well.
Any yes I have asked appbrain if they would consider filtering the SPAM comments from their site. Hopefully they will.
In this instance, I believe the market should regulate itself. There has been enormous growth and with it comes the BS. I'm of the mind to believe this will be addressed.
Legalize it. Don't criticize it.
1) the spam apps (those by Michael Quach, Zeittman, etc).
The easy solution: allow the users to filter out specific words and developers. Then, if a given number of users filter out a developer, consider him "uninteresting" and relegate his apps to the bottom.
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i agree.. i think the user should be able add any developer to their personal 'blacklist' that will just simply hide them from view in the market.
also, a more in depth search is needed. filter by keywords you want, keywords you dont want, categories, rating, total downloads, active installs, developers country, downloads to time in market ratio, etc, etc... i mean come on how hard is this to implement when your the top search provider in the entire world.
edit: also, this spam crap is hurting the legit devs. without proper filters or search, it is an uphill battle to not fail. i mean, how will the casual user even know your app exists when 50 apps above it and 50 apps below it are all spam.
Inspired by jawman27's glossary (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1513143), I copied my own post from the old thread and decided to make my alternate version into its own thread so as not to hijack his thread. His thread deserves to be stickied as does droidstyle's guide, but obviously my lulz variant does not deserve to be stickied. Anyway, here goes:
adb - Our favorite Uberdev forgot to finish his alphabet packet (just kidding, Uberdev )
AOSP - a mistaken spelling for soap; even our elected lawmakers forgot to finish their alphabet packets, because they tried to make showering mandatory when they tried to pass a bill called SOPA.
.apk - file extension for an application. In this economy, we often have to file many applications to get even one interview for a job.
Auto Reboot - sometimes, with no warning at all, while you're in the middle of playing Angry Birds, your phone just automatically reboots, usually indicating something wrong with your installation. This is occasionally a bug in the ROM or kernel, but if you're a noob, it's probably your fault
Bloat - this is a nice way of saying you have gas because you ate a few too many chili dogs.
Brick - what thugs sometimes throw through your window so you'll be too scared to snitch on them.
Clockwork Recovery - when your kitchen clock is dead, you may have to replace your battery so it will recover.
Debloated - see Bloat above - this is how you likely feel after you pass gas.
Droidstyle's Guide - this makes it much easier for experienced users to answer noob questions in ROM threads; instead of actually answering the noob's question directly, you can say "just look at Droidstyle's Guide." This saves a ton of typing and a ton of time. Think of it as prescribing chicken soup for a patient regardless of what's wrong with him or her
Eclair - the last thing patients with tooth decay should eat, and the first thing we actually eat.
Force Close - this was what Circuit City stores had to do when the economy tanked and all the customers were getting their electronics from Best Buy.
Flash - what nutjobs sometimes do in public when they disrobe.
Freeze - either what you have to do to your ice cream sandwich to keep it from melting, or one of the villians in the movie Batman and Robin.
Froyo - what hipsters tell themselves is more trendy to eat instead of ice cream.
Gingerbread - building material for a house in a German fairy tale.
GeeWiz - what kids used to say in the 1950s when their parents grounded them.
Ice Cream Sandwich - another bad idea for people with tooth decay. See Eclair above.
Kang - either a nickname for Captain Kangaroo, or one of the three old Klingons in the Star Trek Deep Space Nine episode "Blood Oath."
Kernel - an individual piece of corn. You want as many of these as possible to pop (without getting burnt) when you microwave your pouch of Pop Secret.
KGB - the principal intelligence agency of the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
Lean Kernel - a low-fat flavor of Pop Secret. See Kernel above.
MIUI - a sound kittens often make when they want your attention.
OC - a teen drama series that aired on the Fox Network from 2003-2006.
Odin - one of the characters in the movie Thor.
Patch - what pirates sometimes wear over one of their eyes.
Quadrant - an entertaining but still useless performance benchmark that's easy to spoof. All you really need to know is this: muh quadz is biggern ur quadz.
Radio - what people used to listen to back in the 20th century
Recovery - what people have to go through after serious injuries or sicknesses.
Root - the part of a plant that keeps it anchored in the ground.
Samsung Drivers - NASCAR drivers whose cars have the Samsung logo on them.
Skin - what certain celebrities show too much of on the red carpet.
TB - an acronym for tuberculosis.
Troll - a short, ugly character from a fairy tale; these often live under bridges.
UV - a type of radiation that will give the aforementioned celebrities sunburn if they continue to show too much skin under direct sunlight.
Voodoo - part of a fellow XDA member's username. http://forum.xda-developers.com/member.php?u=4500750
Wipe x3 - the minimum number of times you have to wipe after #tweetingwhilepooping.
zip - what men have to do after #tweetingwhilepeeing (this is often when men ease nature while sitting down so they can keep using Twitter on their Android phones).
Terminators run on Android
That clears a bunch of stuff up for me, thanks!!!
sendan said:
That clears a bunch of stuff up for me, thanks!!!
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Wow that was a fast reply - I just put this up a couple of minutes ago
Terminators run on Android
Epic.. Keep adding lol
Sent from my SCH-I500 using xda premium
How about adding a who's who within the fascinate community...devs, smart guys, and of course "wanna be" devs? That could lead to all kinds of lulz.
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How about adding a who's who within the fascinate community...devs, smart guys, and of course "wanna be" devs? That could lead to all kinds of lulz.
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Unfortunately it would also likely lead to a lot of flaming and unwanted attention from the mods
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This is great. I finally understand the world of android.
ROFL
Enyo- the most beloved lulz developer in the fascinate community...24/25ths of all members have bricked their device with his work.
Just added 2/25/2012:
Quadrant - an entertaining but still useless performance benchmark that's easy to spoof. All you really need to know is this: muh quadz is biggern ur quadz.
Terminators run on Android
Droidstyle's Guide - this makes it much easier for experienced users to answer noob questions in ROM threads; instead of actually answering the noob's question directly, you can say "just look at Droidstyle's Guide." This saves a ton of typing and a ton of time. Think of it as prescribing chicken soup for a patient regardless of what's wrong with him or her
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It also makes a noob seem a lot smarter, when helping out another noob.
You can also hide your noobness, by using words like "Odin , CWM, and Glitch"
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Not really, at least, not very practically. You *might* be able to set the flag that the RT jailbreak un-sets (assuming it isn't "protected" by PatchGuard the way it is in RT 8.1) but that could break a lot more things than you'd realize; desktop Windows isn't intended to be locked down that way. The best bet that I'm aware of is AppLocker (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd723678(v=WS.10).aspx). That link is for Win7 but I'm sure you can find resources for Win8 as well.
Practically speaking, the simple and obvious approach is to restrict those people to low-rights accounts. That won't stop them from running software that they download to their user profile, but it will prevent many installers and most malware from working, and it will make it easy to clean up any mess they happen to create.
http://google.com/search?q=windows+kiosk+mode
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http://google.com/search?q=windows+kiosk+mode
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When you're trying to be a smartass, at least make sure you are referring to the right thing.
Thanks for reminding me why I rarely bothered with helping online peeps. Some have enough manners to actually acknowledge the help. Most will just get what free help they can and never reply. A few special cases turn out to be a-holes who think they deserve the red carpet VIP treatment, and start lipping off if they don't get it. Guess which category you fall into?
If you had actually expend the two seconds to click on the provided link before flapping your lips, then the kiosk mode fits what you're describing, which is to lock down Windows to a few assigned functions. MS did put out a freeware called Steady State, but that's limited to Vista or older.
Then again, reading comprehension is getting to be a rarity in these parts. Damn twits...(get off my lawn...hahah)
Except, apparently, it's you who misread the request... or perhaps misread what Kiosk Mode in Win8.x does. It would be much *too* restrictive for the OP's needs, because it would prohibit using the desktop (or any of its software, such as Explorer or Word), or downloading Store apps (much less running them; it's limited to a preselected app). So, while perhaps the "smartass" reply was unwarranted (I remind you again that your avatar - showing a creature typically believed to be of sub-human intelligence rolling its eyes - will cause many people to automatically *assume* you're being a smartass even when you don't intend such) - you weren't actually being very helpful either.
With that said, OP, you really should search before posting; this exact question has been asked, discussed, and rejected as impractical before.
I read the request just fine. OP wants a way to restrict peeps from doing "bad stuff" on a Win8 box. Then, kiosk mode is a good key word to search on. There are others, of course, but noobs are only interested in being spoonfed, so I threw him a freebie to start out.
You should expand your knowledge. Kiosk mode (to lock down the PC) is a generic term that pertains to a variety of solutions, and not just the particular built-in Win8 solution you referred to. Locking down (public) PCs is a common need, and solutions abound. While Win8 has had very little new desktop software for it, Win7 does have a wide range of 3rd-party software, some of which undoubtedly have been upgraded to work with Win8. Shocker, there are actually more than one page of search hits.
BTW, I'm sick and tired of people (all two of them) casting aspersions on my avatar. It's a damn pic. I happen to like orangutans and think they're cool cats. Works for me, and if you don't like it, tough. So, do spare me the Dr Phil routine, before I start writing a dissertation on the irrelevant ramblings of someone who calls himself "GoodDaytoDie". When I want your 2 cents, I'll ask for it.
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Thanks for reminding me why I rarely bothered with helping online peeps. Some have enough manners to actually acknowledge the help. Most will just get what free help they can and never reply. A few special cases turn out to be a-holes who think they deserve the red carpet VIP treatment, and start lipping off if they don't get it. Guess which category you fall into?
If you had actually expend the two seconds to click on the provided link before flapping your lips, then the kiosk mode fits what you're describing, which is to lock down Windows to a few assigned functions. MS did put out a freeware called Steady State, but that's limited to Vista or older.
Then again, reading comprehension is getting to be a rarity in these parts. Damn twits...(get off my lawn...hahah)
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Oh you are soooo helpful, providing me a link to a Google search that's not even the right thing. I think I said that I need them to use more than one app.
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Except, apparently, it's you who misread the request... or perhaps misread what Kiosk Mode in Win8.x does. It would be much *too* restrictive for the OP's needs, because it would prohibit using the desktop (or any of its software, such as Explorer or Word), or downloading Store apps (much less running them; it's limited to a preselected app). So, while perhaps the "smartass" reply was unwarranted (I remind you again that your avatar - showing a creature typically believed to be of sub-human intelligence rolling its eyes - will cause many people to automatically *assume* you're being a smartass even when you don't intend such) - you weren't actually being very helpful either.
With that said, OP, you really should search before posting; this exact question has been asked, discussed, and rejected as impractical before.
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Well then our resident Google expert should tell me the search string to Google, as whenever I search anything related to RT and exe, I just get RT jailbreak stuff.
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I read the request just fine. OP wants a way to restrict peeps from doing "bad stuff" on a Win8 box. Then, kiosk mode is a good key word to search on. There are others, of course, but noobs are only interested in being spoonfed, so I threw him a freebie to start out.
You should expand your knowledge. Kiosk mode (to lock down the PC) is a generic term that pertains to a variety of solutions, and not just the particular built-in Win8 solution you referred to. Locking down (public) PCs is a common need, and solutions abound. While Win8 has had very little new desktop software for it, Win7 does have a wide range of 3rd-party software, some of which undoubtedly have been upgraded to work with Win8. Shocker, there are actually more than one page of search hits.
BTW, I'm sick and tired of people (all two of them) casting aspersions on my avatar. It's a damn pic. I happen to like orangutans and think they're cool cats. Works for me, and if you don't like it, tough. So, do spare me the Dr Phil routine, before I start writing a dissertation on the irrelevant ramblings of someone who calls himself "GoodDaytoDie". When I want your 2 cents, I'll ask for it.
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Oh yes, go ahead, call me a noob.
I know about various kiosk software, and I also know that there's always a way to get around it - some people literally turn off their antivirus software because the malware tells them to. Which is why I wondered about having an RT-style lock, without any visible toggles and switches to disable it.
And by the way I didn't look at your avatar at all, I just really don't think that pointing somebody to Google, or even worse, LMGTFY, is just rude.
Considering that this is a website where I got banned twice and flamed out of a thread because I mentioned ways to improve things in it, I expect other people to be nicer.
>Oh yes, go ahead, call me a noob.
OK, noob. Here's the thing. It's rude to expect people to be mindreaders, and start lipping off if they don't give you the exact answers you wanted. Did you say you already tried kiosk software? Hmm, no. Do you know that "kiosk mode" has a general meaning of locking down PCs, and kiosk software allows a variety of possible configurations? Hmm, not likely, considering your penchant of lip first and read later.
>I just really don't think that pointing somebody to Google, or even worse, LMGTFY, is just rude.
Wow, you DO expect manners, even though you have none to offer. Well, noob, reality check. Lots of questions are answered by simple search queries. If you think that's rude, then you should stop asking questions, because with your flipping people off when you don't like their answers, this thread will inevitably be the result.
>this is a website where I got banned twice and flamed out of a thread
Why am I not surprised. Going for a third?
>I expect other people to be nicer.
Right, it's always other people who need to be nicer, but you can be an a-hole because God has given you a lifetime license. Good luck with that.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=how+to+link+to+google+and+expect+to+be+called+a+saint
I think "RT-style" is specific enough to not require any mind reading. What YOU linked me to was not specific at all. But hey, it's the XDA tradition to call people noobs if they refuse to suck your ****, right?